BTS : Avatar Creations

You made a beautiful avatar. I LOVE that "thousand yard stare".
This is the avatar that I want.
Thank you VERY MUCH for your very creative effort. It is truely a piece of art.

I also like the avatar that Agarta made, so I would also like to take that one, and keep it for a rainy day, if I may?

Both these avatars exceed my expectations by a LONG mile!!

I love the armor on Agarta's one.
I love the face and stare on bigfatfurrytexan's one.

Agarta followed the description I gave, to the letter. (thank you for that.)

bigfatfurrytexan more focused on the emotion that I was trying to convey in my description, and bigfatfurrytexan hit the nail on the head.

I am very happy about this, and I would be very honoured if I may walk away from here with both these avatars. Do I have the permission of the
creators to do that? I'll wait for your reply.

I also saw the avatar that was posted by 74Templar, and I thank you for your effort, but unfortunately that washed-out colour scheme is not really my
style. Please keep that avatar in case somebody else comes along that wants it. That way, I don't have to be greedy. The facial expression on the
74Templar avatar does deserve some good points. I like the expression. That man also looks wise, but I am not that fond of the almost "elf-like"
theme. Somebody else may like it though.

Take as you desire shall be the whole of the law lol. In fact we could probably combine the 2 as in put the head of BFFT on my armor with a new
background. It really is up to you on what you want. This is my opinion anyway. I'm sure BFFT could splice the 2 or I could if he chooses not to.

Hi Agarta,
I really like the avatar that you created, and now that I have stared at it for so long, I cannot imagine it with any other head or face.

If you still want to help, there is one thing that you could do for me:
If you don't mind, please could you remove the blood from the sword.

The blood on the sword reminds too much of death, and that should not be the message of this avatar. I want the message to be more about wisdom and
thinking. It is good for the armor to be old and worn, but the knight must have a clean sword with no blood on it. He hasn't actually killed anybody
in recent years.

I can do that here in a bit but I would like clarify exactly what I am removing. there are a few obvious blood marks along the lower section of the
blade, but the upper section looks like rust. Would you like me to remove it all making it a clean blade or just the blood?

Glad you enjoy it. It really was a challenge as there is nothing even close on Google to build from. So it is a combination of 5 images, plus a few
sprouts of hair from a photo of J-Lo that was done in higher contrast.

Glad you enjoy it. It really was a challenge as there is nothing even close on Google to build from. So it is a combination of 5 images, plus a few
sprouts of hair from a photo of J-Lo that was done in higher contrast.

That's what I like to see...people pushing past their comfort zone. Recessing an image to fit ATS background size restraints but the ones who take
many images overlays...etc to create a well thought image that leads the eye from one thing to another is what I like to see...an honor.

I always have my avatar faces looking toward the text not away meaning disengaged, not interested. I also place image, color design to lead your eye
from the bottom of the image through the middle and on to which ultimately leads the eye to their post text.

It's a bit of known science within the arts.....bring it here. Expand yourself....it's the only way to get better.

Learning the PEN TOOL will show exacting precision used to create the image.....Oh and everything should be balanced.....Bid thing at the
top....big,medium thing that counters. Could be balanced with an image, color, design...etc. It just need to flow with eye movement.

Sometimes you find yourself flowing in accordance with natural law without thought. But when you are struggling with something, remembering that
there is music in the spheres (and other such concepts) may help.

Content-awareness is a useful aspect of Photoshop where image editing is done automatically and intelligently. It comes in two forms, content-aware
scaling, and content-aware filling, in which elements in a background automatically recompose according to the areas a user of the program decides to
fill or scale. More specifically, content-aware scaling works by rescaling an image and causing its content to adapt to the new dimensions and
preserving important areas of it. Content-aware filling functions by matching tone, color, and noise of an area of the image that contained an object
or detail in which the user decides to remove.

The avatars I've seen on this thread are so creative and awesome...I hope to get some sort of inspiration to make a truly cool avatar instead of just
posting my picture as my avatar cuz seeing all this cool artwork is totally putting my picture to shame. All of you must put so much work into making
these avatars...are there any specific programs that you use to overlay images and make these or what? How does that work exactly?

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P.S. I uploaded a picture to put in my signature but it won't show up when I include it. Any ideas as to why? Is it a dimension problem, like the
width/height are too large? Are there size restrictions on the width and height of signature images like for avatar and background images and if so,
what are the width and height restrictions on signature images?

I use microsoft picture manager (for the basic stuff), paintshop pro 9 and now GIMP - which is an ongoing learning curve for me.

The signatures, as per the OP, are 70 x 600 pixels and max size of 50kbs.

When you load them, you need to copy paste the 'external full url link" into the 'signatures section' of your profile and hit submit. There is a
glitch if you simply choose "signature" when the picture is loaded.

Originally posted by jcutler12888
The avatars I've seen on this thread are so creative and awesome...I hope to get some sort of inspiration to make a truly cool avatar instead of just
posting my picture as my avatar cuz seeing all this cool artwork is totally putting my picture to shame. All of you must put so much work into making
these avatars...are there any specific programs that you use to overlay images and make these or what? How does that work exactly?

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1/24/2013 by jcutler12888 because: Spelling

P.S. I uploaded a picture to put in my signature but it won't show up when I include it. Any ideas as to why? Is it a dimension problem, like the
width/height are too large? Are there size restrictions on the width and height of signature images like for avatar and background images and if so,
what are the width and height restrictions on signature images?

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You can use the following programs to edit images but it takes some tutorials to understand if you never used these programs before.

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